What Common Onion supports
62
native animals
supported in the US
27
caterpillars
1
hosts
10
food
24
flowers
supported in the US
Caterpillars All
27 native moths and butterflies raised on it, most recorded first.
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Leek Moth
Acrolepiopsis assectella
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Great Southern White
Ascia monuste
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Fruit-tree Leafroller Moth
Archips argyrospila
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Virginian Tiger Moth
Spilosoma virginica
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Salt Marsh Moth
Estigmene acrea
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Ipsilon Dart Moth
Agrotis ipsilon
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Fall Armyworm Moth
Spodoptera frugiperda
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Alfalfa Looper
Autographa californica
Hosted animals All
1 native gall makers, leaf miners and other animals living on or in it, most recorded first.
Plant eaters All
10 native animals that feed on it, most recorded first.
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Western Flower Thrips
Frankliniella occidentalis
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Bird Cherry-oat Aphid
Rhopalosiphum padi
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Weevil
Otiorhynchus porcatus
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Black Bean Aphid
Aphis fabae
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Banded Cucumber Beetle
Diabrotica balteata
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Alfalfa Snout Beetle
Otiorhynchus ligustici
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Pomace Fly
Scaptomyza pallida
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Seedcorn Maggot
Delia platura
Flower visitors All
24 native pollinators and other flower visitors, most recorded first.
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Vancouver Bumble Bee
Bombus vancouverensis
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Tripartite Sweat Bee
Halictus tripartitus
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Fuzzy-Horned Bumble Bee
Bombus mixtus
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Yellow-faced Bumble Bee
Bombus vosnesenskii
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Great Golden Digger Wasp
Sphex ichneumoneus
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Red Mason Bee
Osmia bicornis
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Orange-legged Furrow Bee
Halictus rubicundus
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Kincaid's Cellophane Bee
Colletes kincaidii